Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know what you are thinking, how can this be done? Well stay tuned because it will be happening soon.  I will even post the recipe once I finish with it. 

A New Dress

Remember that whole post about trying on 17 dresses? Yeah well my mom got this great idea to checkout Fantasy Bridal.  As we walk into the store, what is hanging on a rack? The dress that we've been envisioning since beginning of March. Odds of that happening are what? Yeah I don't know them either. Is it kind of crazy? Yes it is. I'm somewhat excited about it and somewhat disappointed  by it.  Now hear me out.  I'm glad that now my mom and family don't need to stress so much about making sure the dress is right and everything yet sad because we had kind of made a little tradition in our family about having dresses made for us.  My mom's dress was made for her, my sisters dress was made for her so it made sense that mind would be made for me. But it's done so there's really not alot we can do about it right? And they can order it in and it will be in by the end of July.  Not too thrilled with that aspect of the whole thing but I'm sure if my family was making my dress it would put me into a higher stress state wondering if the dress would be finished in time. 

3 weeks for the postman to hurry

Well Chris and I met with his Stake President on Sunday and he saw no reason to hold back on the clearance so he sent his letter and all the other paperwork off yesterday to the First Presidency. Now we just have to wait 3 weeks to hear back on what the answer is. Well hopefully it will only take 3 weeks to hear back. 


Don't worry, I will be keeping everyone up to date on all the information I get. 

Best man ever!

I just wanted everyone to know that Chris is the best man ever!  I was at the Zumbathon today and he shows up close the beginning with a dozen roses.  How sweet is that?

I'm so lucky to be marrying him in September.

Mary's Stress of Losing Weight..again: Zumbathon

Mary's Stress of Losing Weight..again: Zumbathon: So I'm really excited about this coming Saturday.  My work is having a Zumbathon.  It is free and it's 2 hours of close to nonstop Zumba.  I...

Finally a meeting

We have some great news to announce.  No we did not get our clearance yet, but we are now one step closer to getting it.
Chris received a  message today from his stakes executive secretary asking if he and I could meet with his Stake President this Sunday at 2:15 pm.  Of course we can and so we are now officially one step closer to getting our temple day planned. Such a relief for me.


Wish us luck!
Thank you for reading.


~Mary


This is just me testing out the link option and figuring out how to put it into comments. New blog


See and it's even ADA compatible. Yeah I learned that form Internet classes I had to take at work. 

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone one!
With this holiday it is probably the last holiday Chris and I will have to spend as close to single as we are. Yes there are still more coming up but we've always spent those ones together.  I think Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter are the main family holidays, if you get what I mean.  Those are the holidays that if you bring someone to it then you are serious about them.  Yes Chris and I have seen each other on those Holidays but our families schedules are pretty similar to each others so that makes it difficult to celebrate with each other. 


I'm curious how others celebrate their holidays evenly with their in-laws? I don't want to step on any toes and Chris and I have discussed this to a point but we really can't make a decision until we are actually married.  Even after we are married those decisions will change once children come into play.  Crap I said children, now I have to have them. *sighs* 


I hope everyones holiday was relaxing and enjoyable. 


Thank you for reading
~Mary

Side Blog

If you are interested, I have created a side blog that will hopefully help me to stay focused through losing weight and firming up before the wedding.  Because let's face it, no one wants to look like a marshmallow on their wedding day. 

So many choices and not alot of time

We'll get back to some of the plans for the wedding now.
So we have my dress picked out now I can start planning what type of bouquet I want to hold the entire time. So I'm going to be uploading 6 pictures of the bouquets I like the best.  The only hint I'm giving about my dress is that it will be an A-line design and unique. Did you know that when choosing your bouquet certain ones go with certain styles of dresses? I didn't either.  So here are the pictures and let me know what you think of each one. 

I like the wired tied up look, since I will be doing a Bird Cage Veil I think this one makes that connection to each element.

This one is just really pretty and elegant, not sure if it will really match my theme or dress though.

Now this one is one of my top favorites since it is simple and I love the jewel aspects, where I can tie that into the guys flowers too.

Similar to the one above but I'm not sure if I like the bulk of it. 

Again I like the wired look but I'm not a huge fan of roses so yeah.

This on is really unique and I like it a lot for that but not sure if I would have that as my bouquet.

The Flowers I would like to use for the wedding are Calla Lilies and a few roses.  And the colors we are planning on are Red, Black and White.  Very simple yet elegant in their own way. I have a few pictures I will be adding in for decorations and center pieces. Hmmm possibly have a contest on how to do something.  Yes even with the 4 people that are following me. :D 





Thank you once again for reading.
~Mary

Rec Volleyball

Just really doing a shout out for my volleyball team this week.  We are playing our first rec division ladies volleyball.  I'm pretty nervous, not going to lie about it, but I'm also really excited for it.  
Our team came together because of coaching Unified Special Olympics Volleyball.  All of the partners and coaches had a blast playing, especially when we were finally taught how to play by our technical coach and so when my work had the fliers up I checked to see if the team wanted to play and they all agreed. So we are pretty excited, I might even get some pictures of it too. 


Thanks for reading
~Mary

Just a little sympathy

Ever have those periods of time where you are working towards a certain goal and when you finally see that goal in sight and you're doing all that you can to reach it, then when it is within your grasp it goes away. I had one of those moments last week. A position opened up to be an office manager, I know not really my ideal job but it is more than a foot in the door, I'm in the lobby with it.  I had great letters of recommendation from the people who have trained me and let me do what I do best, be efficient and make everyone else look bad while doing it. Also I have over 5 years experience with everything they were looking for in the position.  I practically do the job right now but for less pay and no recognition. So to say I was shocked to get the rejection e-mail after being one of the first picks for interviews as well as being recommended by many many higher ups. I was hurt and I cried a little, just a little. Then I find out on Friday that the position and place I wanted, the place that was going to make all of mine and Chris' married life bliss a little more blissful, gave the job to a swim coach. A SWIM COACH!!!!!! Not just any swim coach.  One that has had no previous experience running an office, counting money or dealing with half of the program we use to make everything run.  I've worked with him before, he was lazy and had to be babysat 24/7 whenever he was on the job and he flirted with the front desk staff.  The staff that he is now in charge of.  
I know it's water under the bridge but come on people. A swim coach, really? really? 


Due to the stressfulness of interviews over the past few weeks I've been absent and I'm sorry to those who do read my blog and are interested in what I have to say.  Or just to make fun of my funny grammar and/or the new words I like to come up with.


Thank you again for reading
~Mary